String o' Pearls

Today we buried my mom. She died on March 1 and her funeral was on March 22, but in upstate NY the ground is too hard and frozen at that ti...

Here’s a the current state of affairs at Casa Pearl. A little bird is building her nest in a fake flowering plant that we have hanging on ou...

Tomorrow it will be exactly one month since my mother took her last breaths, with four of her five children gathered around her hospital bed...

My mother has left this world.  For a better one, to be sure…but even knowing that, it is so very sad and so very strange, surreal even, to ...

Please pray for the repose of the soul of my mother, who died peacefully on March 1 at the age of 89.  She passed into eternal life with fou...

Is this what Heaven might be like for me?  Snuggling a beloved baby, whose precious sleeping face is resting on her Grammy’s shoulder?  I so...

The last time I was here, in mid-January, we were a few days away from having our oldest son and his family (including seven of our grandchi...